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Glenn Matfin

glenn.matfin@mbru.ac.ae +971 4 383 8723

Glenn Matfin obtained his medical education in the UK (including MSc in Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Oxford) and USA (including National Institutes of Health (NIH), working with Pima American Indians). He has been a clinician-educator-researcher specializing in General Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology for over 30 years (including being a Senior Physician, Joslin Diabetes Centre, Harvard Medical School, USA; Medical Director and Clinical Professor of Medicine, WHO Collaborating Center for Diabetes, International Diabetes Center and Mayo Clinic, USA; and Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Medicine, Acute and General Medicine, Diabetes and Endocrinology, NHS and Peninsula Schools of Medicine, UK). He has made important contributions to diabetes research and translation in the UK, USA and internationally. This includes being an ongoing investigator in the landmark study in type 1 diabetes (DCCT/EDIC); Type 1 Diabetes Exchange Clinic Network; EMPA-REG outcome studies; and the LEADER studies. He has also published widely including editorial roles with the BMJ Education group, Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Therapeutic Advances in Endocrinology and Metabolism (Founding Editor-in-Chief), and Journal of the Endocrine Society; as well as editing several major textbooks (e.g. Endocrine and Metabolic Medical Emergencies, published by the USA Endocrine Society, 2018; and Lecture Notes in Acute Medicine, Wiley, 2021). He is a keen and effective teacher (e.g. received Harvard Medical School Academy Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence in Tutoring Award in 2011, for his teaching on the medicine MD degree course).

Academic Appointments

2018 - Present

Professor of Medicine

Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE

2014 - 2017

Honorary Professor of Medicine

University Medicine, Peninsula Schools of Medicine & Dentistry, Plymouth, UK

2011 - 2014

Medical Director and Clinical Professor of Medicine

WHO Collaborating Center for Diabetes, International Diabetes Center and Mayo Clinic, USA

2010 - 2011

Senior Physician and Teaching Attending

Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

2005 - 2009

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine

New York University, College of Medicine, New York, USA

1998 - 1999

Senior Lecturer in Medicine

Asean-Sheffield Medical College, Ipoh, Malaysia and University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Professional Education

2020 - 2025

General Medical Council

Specialist Registration in General Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetes, UK

2019

FRCPE

Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), UK

2013 - 2023

Board Recertification (Internal Medicine)

American Board of Internal Medicine, USA

2010 - 2020

Board Recertification (Endocrinology and Diabetes)

American Board of Internal Medicine, USA

2009

MSc (Oxon)

University of Oxford, UK

2007

FRCP

Royal College of Physicians (London), UK

1999

FACP

American College of Physicians, USA

1999 - 2009

Board Certification (Endocrinology and Diabetes)

American Board of Internal Medicine, USA

1998

General Medical Council

Specialist Registration in General Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetes, UK

1997 - 2007

Board Certification (Internal Medicine)

American Board of Internal Medicine, USA

1996

FACE

American College of Endocrinology, USA

1991

Diploma in Geriatric Medicine (DGM)

Royal College of Physicians of London, UK

1990

MRCP (UK)

Royal College of Physicians of London, UK

1988

General Medical Council

Full Registration, UK

1987

MB ChB (Distinction in Biochemistry)

University of Leeds, UK

1985

BSc (Honours)

University of Leeds, UK

Teaching

  • Co-Chair, Curriculum Committee, MBRU
  • Teaching Clinical Medicine, Clinical Reasoning, Clinical Skills and Diabetes/Endocrinology to undergraduate medical students, MBRU
  • Clinical Team Lead for Endocrinology undergraduate medical course
  • Teaching Clinical Medicine and Diabetes/Endocrinology to clinicians (e.g. physicians, physician associates, nurse practitioners)
  • Clinical Lead for Physician Associate postgraduate course
  • Firm Internal Medicine Teaching Attending, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Teaching Evidenced-based Medicine and Clinical Trial Methodology to clinicians
  • Clinical Editor, British Medical Journal (BMJ) Education Group, OnExamination revision aid.
  • Medical Lead, China Initiative for Diabetes Excellence [CIDE] (5-year postgraduate program run in association with China Ministry of Health, China Diabetes Society, China Center for Disease Control, and WHO Collaborating Center at International Diabetes Center and Mayo Clinic).
  • Chief Medical Resident, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, USA.

Honors and Awards

2011

Excellence in Tutoring Award - Harvard Medical School Academy Center for Teaching and Learning

Medical Student Course, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

1997

University of South Florida Health Sciences Internal Medicine Award

Tampa, USA

Publications

Diabetes control and complications trial/epidemiology of diabetes interventions and complications study at 30 years: advances and contributions

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Empagliflozin, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes

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Liraglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes

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Liraglutide and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes

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Empagliflozin and Progression of Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetes

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Recommendations for standardizing glucose reporting and analysis to optimize clinical decision making in diabetes: the Ambulatory Glucose Profile (AGP)

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Safe and Effective Use of the Once Weekly Dulaglutide Single-Dose Pen in Injection-Naïve Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

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The T1D Exchange clinic registry

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Severe hypoglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis in adults with type 1 diabetes: results from the T1D Exchange clinic registr

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Gene deletion causing adrenal hypoplasia congenita and hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism

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Membership of Professional Bodies and Associations

  • Endocrine Society, USA
  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, UK

Research Interests

  • New Therapies and Technologies in Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic diseases.
  • Male reproduction (e.g. Hypogonadism and Cardiometabolic risk)

Clinical and Community Service

  • Consultant Physician, Mediclinic ME, UAE
  • Member, National Acute Care Study Group, Diabetes UK (2017-2020), UK
  • Chair of the Drug and Therapeutics (Formulary) Committee, Plymouth University Hospitals Trust, UK
  • Director, Inpatient Diabetes Program, Joslin Diabetes Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
  • Medical Director, International Diabetes Center, Park Nicollet HealthPartners Care Group, Minneapolis, USA
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